Whichever way allows your fingers to rest on the buttons. Unless it's a weird buttonless Apple mouse, then you're just SOL.
The first computer mouse was apparently more of a block.
I imagine it got its name from the 'tail' part, and the fact that it now looks mouse-like is mostly a co-incidence of it now being more ergonomically shaped.
Whichever way allows your fingers to rest on the buttons. Unless it's a weird buttonless Apple mouse, then you're just SOL.
Congrats you just discovered why restrictive, binary language isn’t a great way to describe real-world concepts.
Now do gender.
Neither, and both.
Many objects just don't have a front and a back, other than front being the side closer to you.
Just like you can sit behind and in front of the computer.
You put your palm on its face and finger its arse.
Like so https://s3.envato.com/files/105420941/Man%20Using%20A%20Computer%20Mouse%20(Image%20Preview).jpg
That was my risky click of the day
Could be both, to be honest. I've seen old mouses where the ears were on the buttons, and others where the tail is the cable
Mice.
But I know what you mean. Feels like computer mice should be its own word with its own plural form
Apparently mouses is correct for computer mice but I don't subscribe to that train of thought at all.
Yeah, it's been a while since I last used mice